What is most closely the central idea of the passage below (paragraphs 11-13)?You take tribes aside and advise them not to come into this measure and until our design is accomplished we do not wish to accept your invitation to go and visit the President. The reason I tell you this is-you want by your distinctions of Indian tribes in allotting to each a particular track of land to make them to war with each other. You never see an Indian come and endeavour to make the white people do so. You are continually driving the red people when at last you will drive them into the great Lake where they cant eat or stand or work. Brother, you ought to know what you are doing with the Indians. Perhaps it is by direction of the President to make those distinctions. It is a very bad thing and we do not like it. Since my residence at Tippecanoe we have endeavoured to level all the distinctions to destroy village chiefs by whom all mischief is done. It is they who sell our land to the Americans. Our object is to let all our affairs be transacted by warriors.

WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

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What is most closely the central idea of the passage below (paragraphs 11-13)?You take tribes aside and advise them not to come into this measure and until our design is accomplished we do not wish to accept your invitation to go and visit the President. The reason I tell you this is-you want by your distinctions of Indian tribes in allotting to each a particular track of land to make them to war with each other. You never see an Indian come and endeavour to make the white people do so. You are continually driving the red people when at last you will drive them into the great Lake where they can’t eat or stand or work. Brother, you ought to know what you are doing with the Indians. Perhaps it is by direction of the President to make those distinctions. It is a very bad thing and we do not like it. Since my residence at Tippecanoe we have endeavoured to level all the distinctions to destroy village chiefs by whom all mischief is done. It is they who sell our land to the Americans. Our object is to let all our affairs be transacted by warriors.

A	The Native Americans know that the Americans are stimulating war between tribes in an effort to claim their land.
B	The Native Americans are not interested in meeting the American president.
C	The Native Americans do not attempt to divide the Americans in order to conquer.
D	Certain Native American chiefs have participated in the American attempts to create tension between tribes.

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -The mother feels like her people are viewed as a museum exhibit, hence the title “Museum Indians.” The theme is that non-natives have a very biased view of the American Indians.

Detailed explanation-2: -What is unique about Power’s relationship to the buckskin dress at the art institute? It’s her grandmothers. She is in awe at the weight her grandmother must have carried while wearing it.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the lecture, “Museum Indians” by Susan Power, talks about the blue experience of her mother as a traditional Dakota woman moved into urban city, Chicago.

Detailed explanation-4: -In what ways does her mother identify with the buffalo? The mother identifies with the buffalo as she feels that they are out of place and they should both be in the Dakotas. How is Power different from her mother? Unlike her mother Power feels she is part of the city.

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USA HISTORY

JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850

WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON